Evaluation and Improvement of Shifting Quality of the Vehicle Gearbox from the Perspective of Sustainable Development in China’s Vehicle Industry

Yongxiang Li, Sen Cheng, Zechen Chen, Zhenwen Chen, Haixia Guo and Anxin Ye
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Yongxiang Li: Special Equipment Institute, Hangzhou Vocational & Technical College, Hangzhou 310018, China
Sen Cheng: Technology Research Center, Zhejiang Wanliyang Co. Ltd., Jinhua 321004, China
Zechen Chen: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
Zhenwen Chen: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
Haixia Guo: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
Anxin Ye: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-18

Abstract: Energy saving and environmental protection are still two important themes in the vehicle industry. The recent rapid transition in energy markets and the technological advances in the demand-side interventions have renewed attention on the driving behavior of the vehicle consumers. The inappropriate gearshift performance of vehicle gearbox would not only increase the fuel consumption, but also interfere with the driver’s driving emotional state, so that the driver is easy to feel uncomfortable and boring, thus further affecting the fuel consumption. Hence, based on the necessity of improving the gearshift performance of vehicle gearbox, this study adopts GSA test technology to study the problems existing in the shifting quality of the commercial vehicle, so as to achieve high shifting efficiency and low fuel consumption. It could establish the subjective and objective evaluation criteria of the gearshift performance of commercial vehicles determined by the test, which provides a reliable theoretical basis for the optimal design of products and the evaluation of gearshift performance. Then, the technicians could formulate the corresponding shift manipulating schemes and optimal matching steps accordingly, to reach the required technical indexes of power, stability and transmission of the whole vehicle system, thus providing a direction for reducing fuel consumption and emissions, and improving the gearshift performance and quality of the whole vehicle.

Keywords: sustainable development; green driving; shifting quality; vehicle gearbox; dynamic shifting evaluation; GSA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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